Cushion for chairs, &amp;c.



"PATENTED JAN. 13, 1903;

w. & 3. RITTER. CUSHION FOR CHAIRS, 8w.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 16, 1900.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM RITTER AND BENJAMIN RITTER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CUSHION .FOR CHAIRS, 86C- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 718,524, dated January 13, 1903.

Application filed August 16, 1900- Serial No. 27,019. (No model.)

L0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM BITTER and BENJAMIN BITTER, citizens of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cushions for Chairs, &c., which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

Our invention consists in providing a cushion, more particularly of the kind adapted to be placed in an upright position, with means for stiffeningand sustainingthe same,so that it is prevented from breaking down, and said means are not liable to corrode, they also admitting of the direct connection of the tufting or quilting cords or threads in the interior of the cushion, thus relieving said tufts of strain and assistingin preventing the shifting of said device.

Figure 1 represents a vertical section of a cushion embodying our invention. Fig.- 2 represents a'perspective view of a detached portion thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a cushion of usual construction, adapted more particularly for the backs of chairs of the order of Morris chairs, so as to stand upright, or approximately so.

In the cushion is the piece or sheet B of pasteboard, cardboard, or other sufliciently stiff but pliable material, preferably paper or paper-stock, the'same being embedded within the stuffing or upholstering, material of the cushion, whereby theicushion is braced from within in vertical directign, and thus rendered more stable, so that it will not buckle norbrak down, while its flexibilityis npt affected and. its primary appearance is preserved, the stiffener not l eingliabl9-t0 cor- .rodeor rust when the cushion becomes moist through perspiration. Furthermore,the cords o'r'th'reads of the'quilting or tuftin g are passed through the part of the piece B just where the cords present themselves thereto, and thus the cords will not slip from said piece, while they are sustained on the interior of the cushion and the piece is suspended within the cushion by said cords, whereby its normal and operative position is retained and a noncorrosive stiffener provided for the cushion.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A cushion having an upright sustaining member therein, the same consisting of a piece of stiff paper-stock material which is embedded in the stuffing of the cushion throughout the same,

2. Acushion having an uprightsustaining member therein, the same consisting of a sheet of stiif paper-stock material which is embedded in the stuffing of the cushion, and cords connected with the covering of the cushion and passing through said stuffing and sheet.

WILLIAM RITTER. BENJAMIN RITTER.

Witnesses:

E. HAYWARD FAIRBANKS, C. D. M'cVAY. 

